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Edinburgh International Book Festival – Stuart David and Ian Rankin

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Belle and Sebastian, Scotland’s best-loved indie band, was founded by Stuart Murdoch and bass player Stuart David, recording albums such as Tigermilk. David left...

Edinburgh International Book Festival: Jim Crumley and Adam Thorpe

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'Symbols of hope in an uncivilised world' So says Jim Crumley, and for the moment he's not talking about sea eagles or wolves. No, the...

Edinburgh International Book Festival – 26th August

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A flying visit to the EIBF yesterday, but did manage to capture two of the current crime-fiction favourites, Alex Gray and Yrsa Sigurdardottir. And, as...

Edinburgh International Book Festival – 25th August

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Slightly quicker off the mark with yesterday's authors. Amongst those visiting the photographers yesterday were Edwin Collins, Ian Rankin, Festival Director Nick Barley and...

Edinburgh International Book Festival – 24th August

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Yesterday's included Roy Hattersley and the hyperactive Norwegian crime-writer, Jussi Adler-Olsen

Edinburgh International Book Festival: Museums and Libraries – Spaces for Literacy

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Tony Marx, the President of the New York Public Library, likes to tell a story about Polish telephone directories; it's a story a colleague...

Edinburgh International Book Festival: Mary’s Meals – The Shed that Fed a Million Children

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'We believe in the goodness of people...Mary's Meals is a series of lots of little acts of love' (Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow) Many organisations start life at...

Edinburgh International Book Festival: 2015 Siobhan Dowd Trust Lecture

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Matt Haig almost didn't get asked to deliver this lecture at all. When Tony Bradman (Chairman) and Kate Powling (Director) of the Siobhan Dowd Trust started to...

Edinburgh international Book Festival – 20th August

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Latest gallery of authors, with these ones attending the Book Festival at various times on the 20th August

Seeing Visions and Hearing Voices: Richard Holloway at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Richard Holloway is 81 years old and looks about 60. Nevertheless, the author, ex-Episcopal Bishop of Edinburgh, former chairman of the Scottish Arts Council...

Edinburgh International Book festival – Monday’s Authors

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  Another day, another selection of authors attending the Festival. Monday's line-up included Paul Merton, Nicholas Parsons and Julian Clary and our man at the...

Edinburgh International Book Festival – Ali Smith warns against cutting back on public libraries

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At the Edinburgh International Book Festival Scots author Ali Smith warned that the axing of public libraries by local authorities threatened the "democracy of reading"...

Alan Little to become Chair of Edinburgh Book Festival Board

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The Chair of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Lady Susan Rice has announced that she will be stepping down in October 2015 after 14...

Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015: Around the World – with Two Goats

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'What unites us', says Janet Smyth, 'is our stories.' Janet, Edinburgh International Book Festival Children and Education Programme Director, is speaking at the launch of...

People’s Postcode Lottery helps the Book Festival expand

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  Funding from the People's Postcode Lottery will help the book festival reach even more people next year. The Edinburgh International Book Festival announced today that,...

Edinburgh Schools – enter now to win cash for your libraries

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EDINBURGH SCHOOLS SET FOR LIBRARY ENERGISER Survey of parents in the Edinburgh & Lothians reveals 47 per cent have at some point been concerned about...

Book Festival shortlisted for award

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The ScottishPower Foundation has today announced that The Edinburgh International Book Festival is in the running to win an accolade at the inaugural ScottishPower...

The Edinburgh International Book Festival – Irma Kurtz: My Life in Agony

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  In the end it's all about love, or at least that's what Irma Kurtz says, and she should know. Irma has been Cosmopolitan UK's agony...

Edinburgh International Book Festival in Photos – Take 3

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Another selection of authors from the Book Festival, this time from Tuesday's guest list at Charlotte Square. The Festival runs until the 25th August.

The Edinburgh International Book Festival – Bonnie Greer

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Author, playwright and critic, Bonnie Greer spoke to an enthralled audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this week about her upbringing in Chicago,...

The Edinburgh International Book Festival: Books That Win

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If you're buying a book for a teenager, how do you know where to start?  Are you sometimes taken aback by the content of...

Edinburgh International Book Festival in Photos – Take 2

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Another selection of authors from the Book Festival, this time from Friday's guests at Charlotte Square. The Book Festival runs for another week.

Edinburgh International Book Festival – Jura Unbound

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Simon Napier-Bell, Dan Willson and The Jellyman’s Daughter will appear At Born To Be Wide Talk Show at The Edinburgh International Book Festival. Veteran artist...

the Edinburgh International Book Festival – Ghost ships and Nature’s Power

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Top author Rebecca Hunt’s gripping novel ‘Everland’ relates the story of two Antarctic Expeditions. One is the tragic tale of a failed expedition of 1913,...

Today at Edinburgh International Book Festival in photos

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Our man about the Festivals with a camera, John Preece,  was in Charlotte Square Garden today. There are many many authors on the invitation list...

The Edinburgh International Book Festival: graphic novels for healing

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Imagine being told you have third stage cancer. Now imagine you are only 31 when you are told this. And now imagine you are already four...

Edinburgh International Book Festival – new dialogue events

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The overarching theme of this year's Book Festival is Let's Talk - and the latest events announced today are going to be talked about...

Edinburgh International Book Festival 2014 – crime writers

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Scotland seems to breed outstanding crime writers, but other countries are catching up fast - from Norway to Niagara Falls, new talent is emerging...

Booking for Edinburgh International Book Festival opens tomorrow

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  Tickets for the 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival go on general sale at 8.30am tomorrow Tuesday 24 June 2014. Find out more about how to...

Top events at the 2014 Edinburgh Book Festival for young adults

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'Today's teenagers don't read books' 'Teenagers can't concentrate, it's all that gazing at Facebook' Comments we've all heard, or even made. Total nonsense.  Young adult fiction...

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